Historical Events
585
A solar eclipse ends the Battle of the Halys between the Lydians and Medes.
1830
President Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, forcing Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
1918
The Battle of Cantigny: US troops achieve their first victory of World War I.
1962
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 5.7%, the biggest single-day percentage drop since 1929.
2010
A series of blasts in Ahmadabad, India, kill 49 people.
Famous Birthdays
1738
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
French physician who proposed the use of the guillotine as a more humane method of execution.
1759
William Pitt the Younger
British statesman who became the youngest Prime Minister at age 24.
1888
Jim Thorpe
Native American athlete who won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.
1908
Ian Fleming
British author who created the fictional spy James Bond.
1944
Gladys Knight
American singer known as the "Empress of Soul" for songs like Midnight Train to Georgia.
